In July 2016, Tigerair Australia and its parent company (Virgin Australia) announced that the entire A320 fleet will be replaced with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

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Expansion of basesOn 7 March 2012, Tigerair Australia announced the reopening of a second base, at Sydney Airport.On 4 September 2012 Tigerair Australia announced it was resuming flights from Melbourne to Adelaide, beginning from 1 November 2012. On 18 December 2012 Tigerair Australia began direct return flights from Mackay to Melbourne and Mackay to Sydney.

International servicesTigerair Australia expanded into short-haul international flights when Virgin Australia transferred some of its services between Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth and Denpasar on the Indonesian island of Bali to Tigerair from 23 March 2016. These services use three Boeing 737-800 aircraft, wet leased from Virgin Australia and using Virgin's air operator's certificate and flight crew, with Tigerair providing the cabin crew.On 3 February 2017 Tigerair ended flights to Bali, citing approval issues with Indonesian authorities.

On 16 May 2016, Tigerair Australia joined Value Alliance, the world's largest low-cost carrier alliance. The new alliance was started alongside the Philippines' Cebu Pacific, South Korea's Jeju Air, Thailand's Nok Air and NokScoot, Singapore's Tigerair and Scoot, and Japan's Vanilla Air.

In November 2016, Tigerair sought approval to operate expanded international services under its own air operator's certificate using both A320s and 737s.

Yes, we were flying an economy airline. I expected not much but the price was great to fly the length of the East coast. The flight time was substantially changed well before leaving but we had...
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Date of travel 八月 2019

“A Bus in the Air”

Tigerair is one of those super budget airlines where they charge you everything even water. The staff was very nice, cordial and well groomed. There's no in flight enternainment, so make sure to...
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